Bottle Shortage

February 28, 1986

TORONTO — ''I would stop short of using the word crisis but it is serious.'' Bob Woolvet, spokesman for beer producers and distributors in Ontario, was talking about the bottle shortage. He issued a plea for the return of millions of empty reusable bottles and said if they aren't forthcoming there may be shortages of some brands. Ontario residents down about 172 million gallons of suds a year.